Congress
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House passes measure requiring Trump to get congressional approval for continuation of war in Iran
The votes are symbolic and meant to signal to President Donald Trump that support for ongoing military action is waning as the war drags on.
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Jim Jordan requests criminal charges against Jack Smith over allegations of perjury
During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last December, Smith denied that he had looked at the contents of lawmakers' text messages.
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House panel accuses Jack Smith of lying to Congress, urges DOJ to prosecute
The referral accuses Smith of lying to Congress last year when he testified that the “toll records,” or telephone records, his team requested for members of Congress did not include the content of those messages.
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Johnson clashes with House Democrats who stormed his office to protest delay in seating Grijalva
Dozens of House Democrats were involved in the stunt, which comes after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatened Johnson with legal action should he continue delaying the swearing-in ceremony.
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Senate rejects House-backed continuing resolution for ninth time as shutdown stretches into 15th day
The latest vote marked the ninth time that the Senate failed to advance or pass the legislation, prolonging the government shutdown past the two-week mark. The vote failed in a 51-44 split, with five senators not voting.
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Kinzinger admits he alerted FBI to phone data obtained by J6 committee as bureau investigated Trump
Adam Kinzinger said he talked to the FBI in 2023 about the vast amount of phone data that the Democrat-led J6 Committee had obtained in their investigation into Donald Trump.
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Thune says he is open to extending House government funding deadline beyond Nov 21
The Senate has failed eight times to invoke cloture or pass the Republican continuing resolution, which the lower chamber passed last month.
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Graham claims FBI probe into his phone records should 'bother the heck out of' Americans
The FBI allegedly pulled records of nine Republican lawmakers that included information on whom the people were talking to, the length of the phone calls, and where the phone conversations were taking place.
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Stefanik, Cotton urge Bessent to open funding probe on Council on American-Islamic Relations
The Republicans also claimed CAIR's leadership attended a Philadelphia meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee in 1993 where members discussed supporting Hamas, despite its label as a foreign terrorist organization.
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Senate fails to advance Republican continuing resolution in eighth vote
The government entered a shutdown at the beginning of the month, after the Senate failed to pass the House's continuing resolution, or a competing one from Senate Democrats. The Senate needs 60 votes to invoke cloture on the resolutions.
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Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data in Trump J6 probe, raising civil liberty concerns
More details continue to emerge about the collusion between Democrats in Congress and Biden's weaponized DOJ in targeting Trump.
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Arizona AG threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to swear in new lawmaker
Grijalva won the House seat in a special election last month to fill her father's post. Her father, the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva died in March.
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Jim Jordan demands interview with Jack Smith
Your misdeeds were so flagrant that the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility confirmed to the Committee in November 2024 that it had opened an inquiry into the tactics of your office," he said.